covers the "Maipuran" ("Maipurean") or "Core Arawakan" grouping, part of the "wider Arawakan" hypothesis; comprising 2 sets of languages (= 50 outer languages) formerly spoken by communities in the Caribbean and spoken at end 20th century by widely scattered communities in Meso-America and South-America, from Guatemala and Belize to French Guiana and northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia: 82-A WAYÚU+ BANIWA 82-B ASHÁNINGA+ YANESHA